and Branches of Industry, copy to the Central Statistical Administration

Source: PSS vol. 53

One of the most important tasks of economic construction, and unquestionably the most urgent at present—is the reduction of the number of establishments and enterprises receiving state provisioning. Only a minimum of the largest, best-equipped and best-arranged enterprises, factories, mills, mines should be kept on state provisioning, after strict verification of available resources. I prescribe that an immediate further check be conducted and the number of enterprises on state provisioning be reduced once more; a list of enterprises to remain on state provisioning must be compiled at once and sent to the Council of Labor and Defense by the first of October of this year.

Execution is the personal responsibility of all members of the economic councils and especially of the gubernatorial statistical bureaus. For insufficiently—